Data Warehouses White Papers

WHITE PAPER: Business is now demanding more analytical power to analyze new sources of structured and multi-structured data. The IBM Big Data Platform rises to the challenge to create this new analytical environment, making IBM a serious contender to support end-to-end analytical workloads.

Posted: 14 Aug 2013 | Published: 31 Oct 2012

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to discover how an in-memory analytical platform can complement Hadoop, making up for inherent shortfalls from latency and disk access. Receive an introduction to one such solution, designed to tightly integrate with Hadoop and interoperate with all layers of data persistence in an 'Information Anywhere' approach.

Posted: 23 Jul 2013 | Published: 23 Jul 2013

WHITE PAPER: You know that there's a wealth of information to unlock inside "big data," but where do you start? Big data exploration allows you to navigate all potential data sources to determine how best to proceed. In this Q and A, learn how to plan and execute a big data exploration project, measure the business benefits of such a project, and much more.

Posted: 19 Jul 2013 | Published: 19 Jul 2013

WHITE PAPER: When it comes to Hadoop, the technology most often associated with big data, why is it so popular? Does it actually live up to the vendor hype? Check out this informative resource to get the real guidance you need to figure out where Hadoop fits into your organization, and how you can leverage it to extract the most from your big data.

Posted: 17 Jul 2013 | Published: 30 Apr 2013

WHITE PAPER: Today, business need a fast and simple way to analyze data. Unfortunately, many users have limited access to the information they need. Consult this resource to find out how a personal analytics tool can help improve your employee performance. It explains several beneficial applications and the new opportunities they will provide.

Posted: 15 Jul 2013 | Published: 15 Jul 2013

WHITE PAPER: To fully realize the value of all the data available, companies need to take a more scientific, collaborative approach to business intelligence (BI). In this helpful resource, learn about a relationship-based approach to BI and analytics that realigns key responsibilities to better match the needs of your enterprise.

Posted: 28 Jun 2013 | Published: 31 Jul 2012

WHITE PAPER: Big data requires real-time access to data, scalability, and non-disruptive technology - qualities that relational databases just don't have. In this resource, discover how an in-memory data grid (IMDG) addresses the challenges posed by big data and application performance, and learn how one particular data grid can benefit your IT department.

Posted: 07 Jun 2013 | Published: 30 Jun 2012

WHITE PAPER: This brief resource examines the true value of Apache Hive, a SQL engine for the Apache Hadoop framework. Inside, learn how Hive's facilities for data and metadata management are impacting the existing warehouse infrastructure and driving business success.

Posted: 29 May 2013 | Published: 31 Mar 2013

WHITE PAPER: Data warehousing can be an expensive, complicated bag of hardware, software and support. However, adopting a data warehouse appliance will benefit your business today and in the future. In this new white paper, learn about their evolution, pros and cons and if this technology is the right fit for your business. Read it today.

Posted: 08 May 2013 | Published: 31 Dec 2012

WHITE PAPER: View this white paper to learn how one company strengthened analytics by developing a focus on customised healthcare. It linked to relevant operational systems, how to optimise information flow and how to support the overall strategic control of the hospital at just the touch of a button.

Posted: 11 Apr 2013 | Published: 11 Apr 2013

WHITE PAPER: There are more new forms of data today than ever before, and traditional business intelligence systems cannot always handle the amount of stress from this influx of information.  Check out this white paper to discover a system known as 'high performance data warehousing' that can help you successfully analyze and glean insights from your big data.

Posted: 11 Apr 2013 | Published: 31 Dec 2012

WHITE PAPER: View this white paper to learn how IT decision makers can drive faster analytics over large data volumes in a data warehouse. It outlines how you can give end users the ability to have a more interactive analysis using online analytical processing (analysis.)

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 | Published: 10 Apr 2013

WHITE PAPER: This paper focuses on finding the value within big data and offers advice for delivering deeper insight to decision-makers and management. Also, discover how leading companies are benefiting from the recent emergence of MapReduce and real-time analytics.

Posted: 13 Aug 2012 | Published: 01 Jun 2012

WHITE PAPER: The survival of a business is directly related to how quickly they can make strategic decisions. This white paper explores an analytics accelerator that expedites complex queries, allowing you to respond quickly to changing conditions.

Posted: 09 Jul 2012 | Published: 01 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Check out this article now to learn about public v. private clouds and how they stack up when it comes to mitigating risk and meeting business needs.

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 | Published: 02 Jul 2012

WHITE PAPER: A recent IOUG survey discovered that while most organizations have a well-established data warehouse, acceptance within their companies is still limited. Inside this exclusive study, learn how companies can start taking more advantage of their data warehousing systems to successfully manage the growing amounts of “big data".

Posted: 29 Jun 2012 | Published: 07 Sep 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how to configure your SQL Server data warehousing system to support growing online analytical processing (OLAP) loads while lowering costs, easing management, and improving performance.

Posted: 21 Jun 2012 | Published: 31 May 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper offers up a comprehensive comparison of the Oracle Exadata and IBM Netezza data warehouse appliance, helping you decide which is the better fit for your business. Read this now and learn how they stack up in terms of online transaction processing (OLTP), query performance, simplicity of operation, value and more.

Posted: 30 May 2012 | Published: 18 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Data warehouse appliances have transformed the DW with a platform designed to deliver optimal price and performance with extreme simplicity. This paper outlines the IBM Netezza data warehouse appliance and how it offers extreme time to value, agility and ability to grow with new workloads, cost reduction of ongoing maintenance and more.

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 | Published: 14 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses virtual data services for operational business processing and data management as well as successful virtualization use cases.

Posted: 30 Mar 2012 | Published: 30 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: By using the Oracle Exadata Database Machine as a data warehouse platform you have a balanced, high performance hardware configuration. This paper focuses on the other two corner stones, data modeling and data loading, providing a set of best practices and examples for deploying a data warehouse on the Oracle Exadata Database Machine.

Posted: 12 Mar 2012 | Published: 30 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: This reference contains a sampling of real business results that organizations in a variety of industries have achieved by implementing Oracle Exadata. Learn how you can use Oracle Exadata to reduce IT costs through consolidation, manage more data on multiple compression tiers, improve the performance of all applications and much more.

Posted: 06 Mar 2012 | Published: 18 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn more about how to improve your IT investments for better business.

Posted: 20 Feb 2012 | Published: 20 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper challenges the x86 processor trend, demonstrating that modern mainframe technology represents a scale-up option to the current racks filled with blades. It looks at the way organizations can benefit in terms of improved agility, increased reliability and cost savings by consolidating Oracle databases onto IBM’s zEnterprise.

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 | Published: 14 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides an overview of Oracle’s capabilities for data warehousing and discusses the key features and technologies by which Oracle-based business intelligence and data warehouse systems easily integrate information, perform fast queries, scale to very large data volumes and analyze any data.

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 | Published: 01 Apr 2011